This demo is just plain brilliant. This band, a two-man collaboration
hailing from Louisiana, dub their mix of many metallic styles "Mercurial
Metal", and I do think that is apt - they'll shift from straight thrashing
to open, epic sections, then on into somber keyboard bits... but far from
haphazard, it actually flows naturally. For all their instrumental skill,
the true genius of this band is in the song writing. It takes a lot of
talent to be able to play death metal, black metal, prog metal, and new
age/keyboard music, etc., but that doesn't compare to the amount of
song writing ability it takes to be able to write a song that can encompass
all of those styles naturally - and that's what is so stunning about this
release because over these four tracks Cea Serin does exactly that. It's
deep, emotional, but not pompous or overbearing, and the (mind-boggling)
technicality is not there for its own sake, but rather to serve the songs.
Utterly fantastic. Track this down any way you can.